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Beowulf Jones

Vegetable Man, where are you?

About Me

I like beagles. Ed Harris is a real good actor

My Interests

cats & dogs, marijuana, James Joyce, Richard Pryor

I'd like to meet:

Taliesin, Bill Clinton, JFK, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Snoop Dogg, Tracey Ullman, Billy the Kid, Myrddin Wyllt

Music:

Beatles /George Harrison/John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Wings, NWA/Ice Cube/Dr. Dre/MC Ren/Eazy-E, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/John Cale, Snoop Dogg, Slowdive/Mojave 3/Neil Halstead, Spacemen3/Spectrum/Spiritualized, Bobby Womack, Donovan, Hawkwind, Sigur Ros, 50 Cent/G-Unit, Lesley Gore, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phish /Trey Anastasio, Diana Ross & The Supremes, DJ Quik, Medeski Martin Wood, Belle & Sebastian, The Kingsbury Manx, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd/David Gilmour/Roger Waters/Richard Wright, Otis Redding, the Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Jay-Z, My Bloody Valentine, Mercury Rev, Gnarls Barkely, Radiohead, George Michael/Wham, 2Pac, David Bowie, Os Mutantes, Peter Gabriel/Genesis, Eminem/D12 (RIP Proof), REM, Rolling Stones, Wu-Tang Clan, The Monkees, Iron & Wine, Nas, The Dead Milkmen, Big L, Crispin Hellion Glover, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, Notorious BIG, Xzibit, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Jesus & Mary Chain, Mazzy Star, Queen, The Traveling Wilburys, Public Enemy, Simon & Garfunkel

Movies:

David Lynch, David Wain, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Gregg Araki, Ingmar Bergman, Whit Stillman, Christopher Guest, Terry Gilliam, Monty Python, early Godard, George Lucas, Peter Jackson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Genndy Tartakovsky, early Barbet Schroeder, Robert Altman, Nightmare On Elm Street series, Michael Gondry, Robert C. Banks

Television:

Ricky Gervais Office, The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The State, Stella, Reno 911!, Viva Variety, Boondocks, 24, Get Smart, Family Ties, Seinfeld

Books:

James Joyce, JD Salinger, Anton Chekov, Irvine Welsh, Autobiography of Malcom X (as told to Alex Haley), Fyodor Dostoevsky, New Jedi Order series, anything good on the Arthurian Legend, Raymond Carver, Jay McInerney, Neil Gaiman, Woody Allen, early-Gordon Korman (childhood), Jonathan Frazer, some Stephen R. Lawhead, Bret Easton Ellis

Heroes:

Richard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld, Luke Skywalker

My Blog

Who gave Radiohead permission to enjoy themselves?

After thirteen years of a thorough soul-deadening manufactured through fear of technology & paranoid love, last night's "Radiohead: 'In Rainbows' From The Basement" concert on VH1 confirmed a suspicio...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sun, 04 May 2008 01:29:00 PST

Look how cute Dick Cheney is!!!

I can't get over this pic (Cheney's on the right)!Sure, Cheney is the evilest dude alive. Way more sinister than Bush even 'cause Cheney actually knows what he's doing.But look how happy he is in this...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:49:00 PST

Charleton Heston - Meet The Innocent Bystanders With Bullet Holes Still In ’Em

A couple few days ago I was watching an industrial film hosted by Charleton Heston called "Cults: Saying No Under Pressure" (also starring the youngest Michael Ian Black ever). I said "Is Charleton st...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:04:00 PST

Yahoo! needs to make like Onyx and bacdafucup

Enough with this constant peer pressure to upgrade to Yahoo!'s new CWcool fancy-schmancy mail upgrade.I understand them asking once.But a dignified man don't ask twice.Caught off guard, I was, to be a...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:31:00 PST

Its time to retire the "Cough![say what I mean]Cough!" joke

How did this ever even come about? If this joke is funny, then Mike Huckabee is a more bitchin' bassist than Bootsy Collins. I can't imagine this even played well the first time it was used. Was someo...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Dear Andre Leon Talley and the rest of the gang at Vogue Magazine...

... contrary to your poorly researched blanket statement, I would like to point out that Jonathan Franzen DID say "no" to Oprah. Very very firmly. And that's why we love him.Consider this clarificatio...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:24:00 PST

IAG made a liar out of me

I just got this new job where they pay me to watch television... sounded to me like a pretty good deal. After all, the only thing that really interests me in life is watching stuff. Might as well get...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:49:00 PST

Elmer Posanti to Seymour Hersh: "No Fucking Shit!"

Rolling Stone magazine dedicates three whole pages of their 4/19/07 issue (#1024) to what they want us to believe is the biggest political scandal since Watergate. Seymour Hersh - "America's leading i...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:47:00 PST

I Just Precisely Pinpointed the Last Time I Felt Young

It was the day in 1998 that I purchased R.E.M. "Up", Mr. Bungle "California", Belle & Sebastian "The Boy With The Arab Strap" and Phish "Story Of The Ghost" at the same time. They were released the sa...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:55:00 PST

The name is Burns... GEORGE Burns

I'm so excited, and I just don't know who to sharethis with!I just got this 60 minute George Burns stand-up DVDfrom 1982 where he's 85 yrs old; never before todayhave I ever heard or seen his act.This...
Posted by Beowulf Jones on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:36:00 PST